Words into Action Guidelines: National Disaster Risk Assessment

United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Secretariat. 10/2017 This 314-page document provides guidelines that focus on the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 ' s first Priority for Action: Understanding disaster risk, which is the basis for all measures on disaster risk reduction and is closely linked to the other three Priorities for Action. The guidelines are intended to motivate and guide countries in establishing a national system for understanding disaster risk that would act as the central repository of all publicly available risk information. (PDF)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - October 20, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news